Ronald T. Libby is Professor of Political Science at Southwest State University in Minnesota. He is the author of Protecting Markets: U.S. Policy and the World Grain Trade (1992), The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa (1987), and Toward an Africanized U.S. Policy for Southern Africa (1980).
“An important addition to studies of the politics of policy
formulation and implementation.”—Anthropological Forum
“The book tells us a great deal about contemporary Australia: the
evolution of aboriginal rights, popular attitudes toward
aborigines, the internal politics of the Labor Party, land use law,
states’ rights, and more.”—Perspectives on Political Science
“In this interesting political history, Ronald T. Libby examines
the mining industry’s efforts from 1984 to 1987 to influence public
policy concerning land rights of native peoples under the
Australian Labor Party government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Libby provides a detailed case study of interest group politics in
a federal, multiparty parliamentary system with weak parties,
focusing on the tactics, strategy, and impact of the mining
industry on land policy. . . . A gold mine of raw data, this book
contributes to the literature of interest group competition as it
affects factional struggle in political parties.”—Journal of
Politics
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